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| Conscience & Consequence: A Prison Memoir By Clare Hanrahan. Six months inside Alderson Federal Prison, the oldest and largest federal prison for women. $18 plus $2 shipping/handling (media mail) or check/MO to P.O. Box 7641 Asheville, NC 28802. Available online: Celtic WordCraft.Com. A worthy addition to feminist prison literature. In the style of Thoreau or Nawal el Saadawi, her presentation of experiences and justification for protests, is a touch of grace for the 21st century reader. A valuable memoir for church and college libraries and for book clubs and woman's studies courses. --Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Counterpoise.
| From Warriors to Resisters: U.S. Veterans on Terrorism Edited by Margaret Knapke. Stories of eleven veterans (Laura Slattery, Jeff Moebus, Bill McNulty, Jack Gilroy, Peter Demott, Wayne Wittman, Ellen Barfield, Charles Litkey, Roy Bourgeois, and Bill and Lillian Corrigan) who awoke to the reality of US foreign policy, changed their thinking and their lives and became dedicated and effective resisters of war and its terrors. Click here to download copy of book.
Other Lands Have Dreams: From Bagdhad to Pekin Prison By Kathy Kelly. An account of her time in Iraq from the first Gulf War of 1991, through the misery of 12 years of economic sanctions, to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq that began with Operating Shock and Awe and continues to the present. Kelly served three months in Pekin federal prison for her nonviolent resistance at Fort Benning, Georgia, home to the School of the Americas. Kelly recounts in detail the miseries experienced by U.S. prisoners in a climate where the merciless war on drugs has fostered a “throw away the key mentality." To order from Voices for Creative Nonviolence, please send $15 (check, money order or cash) to Voices for Creative Nonviolence, 1249 W Argyle St, Chicago, IL 60640. For questions call 773-878-3815. To order from CounterPunch by credit card, visit the CounterPunch Books website or call 1-800-840-3683
 We Walk Out But We Do Not LeaveA Re-entry Anthology from SOA Watch Prisoners of Conscience Compiled and Edited by: Clare Hanrahan, Rebecca Kanner, Judith Kelly, Betsy Lamb, Dorothy Pagosa and Shirley Way T hese words, shared honestly and bravely, will awaken readers to the terrible costs of prison, the beautiful spirit of love and solidarity that persists inside, and the challenges of coming home. Here are the stories of 21 released prisoners from the movement to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC). They, and more than 250 others, have been prosecuted and imprisoned for complying with the highest laws, international laws and laws of conscience. They stepped over the line or crossed the fence onto the military installation harboring the “School of Assassins,” a counterinsurgency training school linked to massacres, murders and disappearances throughout Latin America. Email publisher to order paperback copies ($10 postpaid). ISBN: 0-9758846-5-4 Significant discount for bulk orders of 25 or more to same address.
Hooked by the Spirit: Journey of a Peaceful Activist By Sister Rita Steinhagen, CSJ (1928-2006). The autobiography of Sister Rita Steinhagen. In November, 1997 Rita was one of 601 protesters who entered the Fort Benning Military Base in Columbus, Georgia where Latin American military personnel funded by U.S. taxpayers, are trained in counterinsurgency techniques.Twenty-five of the marchers were "repeat offenders" and each was sentenced to six months in a Federal Penitentiary and a $3,000.00 fine. Rita was sent to the Federal Prison in Pekin, Illinois. The book is available at the College of St. Catherine bookstore, the gift shop in Carondelet Center, or by calling Angie at 651-690-7044. Cost is $14.95 per copy. Books can also be purchased in the Twin Cities at St. Patrick's Guild, St. Martin's Table, Luther Seminary Bookstore, and Resource Center of the Americas.
|  Prisoner of Conscience: A Memoir By Ken Kennon Ken Kennon's first hand account ... demonstrates the "monotony of ridiculous routine" inherent in the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) system, and the difference between policy written for public relations and the actuality of inmate treatment. ... This book will shock its readers in many of its aspects, yet often fill them with hope ... "I want my children and grandchildren, and the other children of America, to know something of why prisoners of conscience do what they do and why it is necessary. Reviewed by Lois Putzier.
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